The Future Is Now

I had a strange experience in LVMH. I think I met people from the future. Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but you be the judge. During a hospitalization during a hot Las Vegas summer, I met a lot of people at LVMH with some really weird stories. This is what I think was happening:

(1) People from the distant future, say 2100 and beyond have the ability to travel to this time (2003-2008).
(2) People from that future have the ability to observe us in "real" time. They can watch us like we can watch television.
(3) For whatever weird reason, these people were ending up in the state mental institution with me.

One woman, named Martha, said that her patron saint was St. Teresa of Calcutta, who has not been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church yet. Maybe she was just crazy, or maybe she came from a time where Mother Teresa is already a saint.

A cute African American woman came up to me and said, "I read your Bible last night. You're a survivor." That Bible to which she was referring is the King James Bible, which is written in Old English. In her time in the future, Bibles aren't written that way anymore. As for calling me a "survivor", I think the fine young African American woman was referring to some kind of holocaust in our future, possibly a nuclear war. The holocaust was in her "past" before she jumped through time to meet me.

The weirdest encounter with the future people was with a woman named Kathleen. She claimed to be my first girlfriend, Shannon, only with a new name. She gave an explanation as to why she had changed her name. I was about 33 at the time, so Shannon/Kathleen should have been about 32-33, but Kathleen, the woman apparently from the future, said she was 46.

Kathleen managed to tell details about my life, apparently from the future generations' ability to watch the "past", our present, like television or movies. In particular, I was a fan of Huckleberry Hound, a blue dog from Hanna Barbera cartoons. My cousin Joie (pronounced Joey) gave me a toy Huckleberry Hound doll for my birthday once. Kathleen said, "Your cousin Jerry Lewis gave you a blue doll." I was amazed how she got that one right. I think somehow the signals from the past get messed up when they reach the future. That's why she called Joie "Jerry Lewis".

It seems that the future exists somewhere in the universe right now. People from the future can observe our present, their past, as it's happening. They have some technology that allows them to not only observe their past, our present, but always to travel physically back in time to our time from our future.

I just had to get that one out there. I've seen a lot of crazy things in my time, and I don't think all of it has to do with mental illness. I know, I know, the simplest explanation is that we're all insane. Yet I still find it odd that I'd go someplace where just about everyone claims to have stories about things that have not yet happened or could only happen in our future.